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...Other business figures on the commission include Andrew Ballheimer, former global managing partner of Allen & Overy....
...This means the court is poised to make an immediate order on the first working day after the Benn Act deadline....
...“If we can’t cheat the Benn Act, there will be an election soon,” one aide said....
...David Allen Green, a law and policy commentator for the Financial Times, said Mr Johnson’s letter to Mr Tusk complied with the Benn act and that his failure to sign it was “an utter red herring”....
...He could, therefore, not meet the deadline of October 19, set down under the so-called Benn act, to win Commons support for his deal....
...Kogan’s book updates The Battle for the Labour Party, which he wrote with his uncle Maurice Kogan in the early 1980s detailing the rise of the far left under Tony Benn and what then looked like its complete...
..., of Benn’s inflated simile....
...The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, by Benn Steil, Simon & Schuster, RRP$35 Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations has produced a deeply researched and highly informative analysis of the 1948...
...There were some political campaigns but, as Tony Benn recorded, the impact of the extra-parliamentary protests was to inhibit the official opposition: “the Labour Party is more frightened of the anti-poll...
...But then one suspects that the best minds of Allen Ginsberg’s generation were also not actually dragging themselves through any streets at dawn looking for an angry fix or for anything else....
...However, the committee would not seek to control the timing of when Britain triggers Article 50, the official legal notification to other EU member states, Mr Benn said....
...Hilary Benn, Labour chairman of the House of Commons Brexit select committee, urged the government to publish details of what it wanted for Britain, including what might happen to “future contributions”...
...Additional reporting by Kate Allen...
...Mr Benn’s position has come under pressure after he spoke in favour of UK military action in Syria — a stance that contradicted Mr Corbyn’s....
...MPs from all parties agonised in public over the choice they had to make, the divisions laid bare by the fact that Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader, and Hilary Benn, shadow foreign secretary, ended up in opposite...
...Mr Benn told Sky News that it was not possible “to defeat Isil [Isis] in Syria just by dropping bombs”....
...Hilary Benn, shadow foreign secretary, said Labour supported the bill, although it had some concerns over judicial oversight of the powers to be given to the security forces....
...Graham Allen MP, head of parliament’s constitutional affairs committee, said devolutionists must not “blow it” as they did in 1998....
...John Allen, a member of the Northampton branch of Ukip, is a case in point. Allen, a third-generation military veteran, has been out of work for five years....
...Hilary Benn, shadow communities secretary, described the situation as “extraordinary” and urged the government to do more to reverse the collapse in housebuilding....
...The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Steil’s book is an object lesson in how to make economic...
...The Battle of Bretton Woods : John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95, 472 pages An object lesson in how to make economic history...
...Allendale’s population, including the surrounding Allen Valley, is about 2,500, with barely 1,000 in the town itself. The nearest supermarkets are in Hexham, 10 miles away....
...When explaining why he is running, Allen borrows a phrase from his political hero Tony Benn: “If you don’t like the candidates in front of you, stand yourself.”...
...More Time for Politics: Diaries, 2001-2007 By Tony Benn Hutchinson £20, 352 pages FT bookshop price: £16 More time for politics was what Tony Benn wanted when he gave up his parliamentary seat, and this...
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